Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday afternoon the fresman nine went through some light practice in fielding. Special attention was paid to the infield. The nine has improved greatly within the last two weeks, but there is still room for improvement. As a rule the throwing is much better than the catching of the team and the batting is still weak. Today the nine will play its second game with Groton School at Groton. The same men will be played as before, with the exception of Brown, who has the mumps...
...disagreeable, and no man in his senses would force himself to listen to it. It would doubtless be unbecoming in us to urge any such lack of self-consideration, but surely it is not going too far to call attention to one of the disguises in which lying is still countenanced among honorable...
...reason that all the music to be sung must necessarily be in the very simplest and most perspicuous rhythms, or the singers cannot learn it. This is really the most serious handicap of all: to forego all rhythms except those of the march, the galop or the waltz. And still the young composer has written a great deal of really charming music in "Proserpina," showing no little melodic inventiveness and even succeeding in giving some numbers a characteristic coloring by means as simple as they are effective, and made the best of it as only a man of decided talent...
...principal fault still noticeable is in the body checking, which is as yet weaker than the rest of the play. The attack is also weak in passing, but it will be strengthened by the addition of H. N. Arnold '96, who played for several years on the Lawrenceville School team. E. Norton '96, also of Lawrenceville, is expected to come out soon...
...membership of the club is only half as large as it was last year at this time. It is true the weather thus far has been unfavorable for rowing, but men should bear in mind that nearly ten weeks of the spring season still remain, and according to a recent rule tickets issued now will be good till December, '95. A professional coach will be at the house in a few days to take special charge of the men who are going to enter the spring races, and to give instruction to all other members of the club...